"QVC, for the game, the Beatles' remastered albums, and other related products; several Harmonix employees were present to demonstrate the game. A video advertisement for the game featuring the song ""Come Together"" premiered on August 28, 2009. The spot features a live action recreation of the iconic ""Abbey Road"" album cover; as The Beatles cross the road, a crowd of people follow, some of whom are carrying the game's controllers. The advertisement was directed by Marcel Langenegger, who worked with Apple Corps and Giles Martin to build an Abbey Road set at a Hollywood studio, and to blend archival footage"
"Help! Help! is the fifth studio album by English rock band the Beatles and the soundtrack from their film ""Help!"". It was released on 6 August 1965. Produced by George Martin, it was the fifth UK album release by the band, and contains fourteen songs in its original British form. Seven of these, including the singles ""Help!"" and ""Ticket to Ride"", appeared in the film and took up the first side of the vinyl album. The second side contained seven other releases including the most-covered song ever written, ""Yesterday"". The American release was a true soundtrack album, mixing the first"
"With the Beatles With the Beatles is the second studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 22 November 1963, on Parlophone, and was recorded four months after the band's debut ""Please Please Me"". The album features eight original compositions (seven by Lennon–McCartney and ""Don't Bother Me"", George Harrison's first recorded solo composition and his first released on a Beatles album) and six covers (mostly of Motown, rock and roll, and R&B hits). The cover photograph was taken by the fashion photographer Robert Freeman, and it has been mimicked by several music groups over the"
"from the ""Please Please Me"" photo session, featuring the boys in short hair and cleancut attire, was used for the cover of the Beatles' first double-disc greatest-hits compilation entitled ""1962–1966"" (aka ""The Red Album""). In 1969, Angus McBean took a matching group photograph featuring the boys in long hair and beards to contrast with the earlier cleancut image to show that the boys could have appeal across a wide range of audiences. This photo was originally intended for the ""Get Back"" album which later was entitled ""Let It Be"". The photo was used instead for the cover of the Beatles'"
"The Beatles Anthology (book) The Beatles Anthology is a book published in October 2000 as part of ""The Beatles Anthology"" film project. It includes interviews with all four band members, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, and others involved, most notably George Martin, plus over 1,200 rare photos and colorful illustrations. Many of the interviews quoted are from those featured in the documentary films, and additional interviews were conducted specifically for the book (excluding John Lennon's passages, which were accumulated from various archives and sources). The book went straight to the top of the ""New York Times"""
"The Beatles (album) The Beatles, also known as The White Album, is the ninth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 22 November 1968. A double album, its plain white sleeve has no graphics or text other than the band's name embossed, which was intended as a direct contrast to the vivid cover artwork of the band's previous LP ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". Although no singles were issued from ""The Beatles"" in Britain and the United States, the songs ""Hey Jude"" and ""Revolution"" originated from the same recording sessions and were issued on a"
"UK and US, it initially received mixed reviews, some critics describing its music as inauthentic and bemoaning the production's artificial effects. Many critics now view the album as the Beatles' best and rank it as one of the greatest albums of all time. In particular, George Harrison's contributions, ""Something"" and ""Here Comes the Sun"", are considered to be among the best songs he wrote for the group. The album's cover, which features the four band members walking across a zebra crossing outside Abbey Road Studios, has become one of the most famous and imitated images in the history of popular"
"cover shows the faces of John, Paul, George and Ringo, all of whom are wearing Santa hats, and the words ""Happy Christmas Beatle People!"" are written on the cover. The Beatles' Christmas records English rock group The Beatles sent out spoken and musical messages on flexi disc to members of their official fan clubs in the United Kingdom and the United States each Christmas from 1963 to 1969. An LP compilation of all seven was then sent out in 1970. Conceived as a means to appease fan-club members whose letters, due to their sheer volume, were not always being answered"
"The album's cover photograph shows the four group members walking across the zebra crossing just outside the studio entrance. As a result of its association with The Beatles, since 1969 this part of Abbey Road has been featured on the London tourism circuit. In December 2010 the crossing was given Grade II Listed Building status by English Heritage. The zebra crossing featured on the Beatles cover, as well as the crossing directly north of it, have become popular photo-opportunity areas, despite the road still being a busy thoroughfare for traffic. The Beatles album cover has been parodied many times over"
"appear as a wall of peeling posters and album covers. An updated picture of Voorman can be seen in Harrison's hair in a segment of the ""Revolver"" album cover. All tracks in stereo, except where noted. Side one Side two Side three Side four Side five Side six Side one Side two Side three Side four Anthology 3 Anthology 3 is a compilation album by the Beatles, released on 29 October 1996 by Apple Records as part of ""The Beatles Anthology"" series. The album includes rarities and alternative tracks from the final three years of the band's career, ranging from"
"September 1974, May Pang attended the first Beatlefest convention at Lennon's behest, and met Jürgen Vollmer, an old friend of the Beatles from Hamburg, Germany, who had photographed the band from their Hamburg days. He was selling some striking portraits, and Pang immediately phoned Lennon to tell him of her find. Reuniting with Vollmer in New York, Lennon chose one of his photos for the album's cover. The photo depicts Lennon in a doorway with three blurry figures walking past him in the foreground. Those figures are George Harrison, Stu Sutcliffe and Paul McCartney. The album's working title had been"
"Meet the Beatles! Meet the Beatles! is the second Beatles album released in the United States. It was the first US Beatles album to be issued by Capitol Records, on 20 January 1964 in both mono and stereo formats. It topped the popular album chart on 15 February 1964 and remained at number one for eleven weeks before being replaced by ""The Beatles' Second Album"". The cover featured Robert Freeman's iconic portrait of the Beatles used in the United Kingdom for ""With the Beatles"", with a blue tint added to the original stark black-and-white photograph. After constantly rejecting requests by"
"that he was ""[My] alter ego ... a spirit in his world ... a guiding force"". The Beatles' compilation album ""Anthology 1"", released in 1995, featured previously unreleased recordings from the group's early years. Sutcliffe plays bass with the Beatles on three songs they recorded in 1960: ""Hallelujah, I Love Her So"", ""You'll Be Mine"", and ""Cayenne"". In addition, he is pictured on the front covers of both ""Anthology 1"" and ""Anthology 3"". In 2011, Sutcliffe's estate released a recording claimed to be Sutcliffe singing ""Love Me Tender"", recorded in 1961 and donated to the estate in 2009. The cover"
"this album, but it was later also included on ""On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2"". The cover of ""Anthology 1"" is the first third of the ""Anthology"" collage made by Klaus Voormann. Various photographs and album covers are torn and collected together. Pete Best's face was torn away from the ""Savage Young Beatles"" record jacket in the centre of the album cover, revealing the face of his successor, Ringo Starr, below. The bottom leftmost photograph on the ""Anthology 1"" cover does feature an unobscured Best. The missing portion of the photo was subsequently used on the cover"
"the soundtrack of the film ""Help!"" (tracks 1–7) were mixed into 5.1 surround sound for the film's 2007 DVD release. Help! Help! is the fifth studio album by English rock band the Beatles and the soundtrack from their film ""Help!"". It was released on 6 August 1965. Produced by George Martin, it was the fifth UK album release by the band, and contains fourteen songs in its original British form. Seven of these, including the singles ""Help!"" and ""Ticket to Ride"", appeared in the film and took up the first side of the vinyl album. The second side contained seven"
"Sixteen"". In his book ""The Beatles Solo on Apple Records"", Bruce Spizer describes the first five tracks on ""Ringo"" as ""one of the strongest album sides produced by any ex-Beatle"". The album cover consisted of a painting by Tim Bruckner in which Harrison, the four members of the Band and all the other musicians on the recording appear, alongside Starr. The song was published by the Material World Charitable Foundation, which Harrison had set up in April 1973. Comparing ""Sunshine Life for Me"" with the devout lyrical content of ""Living in the Material World"", Beatles biographer Nicholas Schaffner opined that"
"is a reference to the Beatles' album ""Abbey Road"" and Metallica's album ""Load"". ""Abbey Road"" also provides the cover parody (referencing the image of the Beatles crossing Abbey Road in various ways, such as ""Kliff McBurtney"" wearing bear slippers, and a van with the plate ""28KLIFF""), and most of the track list, with opener ""Come Together"" and the 16-minute medley on the album's Side B. Among the exclusions were ""I Want You (She's So Heavy)"" - which Beatallica had already spoofed as ""Ktulu (He's So Heavy)"" - and the George Harrison compositions ""Here Comes the Sun"" and ""Something"", denied the"
"mid-tempo piano-driven ballad that contains a sample of the recording ""Sabali"" by the Mali musical duo Amadou & Mariam. On April 10, 2012, the band debuted the artwork of the album on their official website. Created by the LA based art project Young & Sick, the cover art doesn't feature any images of Maroon 5 and is instead a colorful collage of illustrations seemingly inspired by the likes of Picasso and a range of modern cartoonists. According to Natalie Finn from E! News, ""the psychedelic Beatles-dipped-in-Cream cover is a where-do-you-look-first wink at the pop-music world, which is so crowded with"
"the Beatles' ""Revolver"" period. The image of the Beatles in the Tokyo hotel room served as inspiration for the photograph used on Oasis' debut album, ""Definitely Maybe"", taken by Michael Spencer Jones.<ref name=""NME/Oasis""></ref> From ""Revolver"" onwards, the Beatles' more dedicated fans began analysing the band's song lyrics for hidden meaning, and, in the description of American academic Camille Paglia, their album covers were also ""feverishly scrutinized for clues and coded messages"". The cover of ""A Collection of Beatles Oldies"" was viewed as the first example of the Beatles leaving clues relating to the Paul is Dead theory. This theory, which"
"cut-outs, it could be a magical crowd of whomever they wanted."" According to McCartney, he himself provided the ink drawing on which Blake and Haworth based the design. The cover was art-directed by Robert Fraser and photographed by Michael Cooper. The front of the LP included a colourful collage featuring the Beatles in costume as the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, standing with a group of life-sized cardboard cut-outs of famous people. Each of the Beatles sported a heavy moustache, after Harrison had first grown one as a disguise during his visit to India. The moustaches reflected the growing"
"from 18 July to 23 October. None of its 14 tracks were issued as singles in the UK. In between sessions, as Beatlemania took off across the UK, the group were busy with radio, TV, and live performances. The sessions featured: Impressed with Robert Freeman's black and white pictures of John Coltrane, Brian Epstein invited the photographer to do the cover image. The Beatles requested him to take inspiration from the pictures Astrid Kirchherr had previously taken of the Beatles in Hamburg between 1960 and 1962, featuring the band in half-shadow and not smiling. To achieve this result, on 22"
"Anthology 1 Anthology 1 is a compilation album by the Beatles, released on 20 November 1995 by Apple Records as part of ""The Beatles Anthology"" series. It features rarities, outtakes and live performances from the period 1958–1964, including songs with original bass player Stuart Sutcliffe and drummer Pete Best. It is the first in a trilogy of albums with ""Anthology 2"" and ""Anthology 3"", all of which tie in with the televised special ""The Beatles Anthology"". It contains ""Free as a Bird"", billed as the first new Beatles song in 25 years. The album topped the ""Billboard"" 200 album chart"
"on ""Beatles VI"". ""You Like Me Too Much"" and ""Tell Me What You See"" were rejected for use in the film by its director, Richard Lester, though they did appear on the album (and also on ""Beatles VI""). Much later, in June 1965, the song ""Wait"" was recorded for the album. However, ""Wait"" (with some newly added overdubs) ended up on ""Rubber Soul"" when another song was needed to complete that album. The album cover shows the Beatles with their arms positioned to spell out a word in flag semaphore. According to cover photographer Robert Freeman, ""I had the idea"
"A Compilation of Scott Weiland Cover Songs A Compilation of Scott Weiland Cover Songs is a compilation album by Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland, released on August 30, 2011. The album consists entirely of cover songs, featuring an array of covers of artists that inspired Weiland, such as David Bowie, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Smiths. The album was originally set to be released together with Weiland's memoir ""Not Dead & Not for Sale"" but Weiland decided later to release the album by itself exclusively in digital format. The cover of the Beatles' ""Revolution"" is actually a"
"music albums he considers the greatest, and the second part of the book features short biographies of every one of them, and each one's choice of ten albums. The list was completed according to their suggestions. The voters were: The book cover was inspired by the cover of The Beatles album ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". It features rock and pop musicians Josipa Lisac, Bebi Dol, Nele Karajlić, Oliver Mandić, Marina Perazić, Branimir Štulić, Slađana Milošević and Dado Topić, Đorđe Marjanović, Dušan Kojić, Arsen Dedić, Đorđe Balašević, Viktorija, Kornelije Kovač, Zoran Miščević, Goran Bregović, Žika and Dragi Jelić, Oliver"
"The liner notes and design of the back cover were done by the man who was in charge of designing the Beatles' EP, Tony Barrow. ""these cheeky chappies from Guildford ... treasure these three audio-visual representations..."" are parts that Phil recalls. The title itself is also a nod to The Rolling Stones, who released both an EP titled ""Five by Five"" and an LP entitled ""12 X 5"". Collins recalls that the album's cover and interior text received negative reviews from a reviewer who was not alive when the original Beatles EP was released, thereby misunderstanding the parody. The response"
"to watch. This photo is the cover of ""Abbey Road"" by Brian Southall. Fifth Photo. This photo was used for the cover of the album and is the only photo where we see Paul smoking. The only one with their legs in perfect formation. The three men on the left above Paul's head are Alan Flanagan, Steve Millwood and Derek Seagrove. They were interior decorators returning from a lunch break. On the right side between John and Ringo's head is Paul Cole, an American tourist. Sixth Photo. Ringo is slightly too far behind John. The bus has turned around to"
"the single, the original album, and the compilation album ""Anthology 3"", it features the fourth version of the song's guitar solo to be released thus far. The cover image of the album features monochrome negatives of the original photos from the ""Let It Be"" cover. Harrison's photograph, unlike that of the other Beatles, has been replaced with another showing him in performance, his teeth less prominent, as a monochrome negative version of the original would show them ""blackened"". On the right of Harrison's new picture, the original ""Let It Be"" picture can partially be seen. On 13 November 2003, the"
"digit was used on many of the compilations of number-one hits by different artists that followed this album; for example, ""ELV1S"" by Elvis Presley or ""Number Ones"" by the Bee Gees. The album's back cover features the famous photos of the Beatles taken by Richard Avedon and copyrighted on 17 August 1967. The design exclusively uses variations of the Helvetica typeface. ""1"" was released worldwide in CD and cassette. The vinyl format was released in only the United Kingdom. The CD includes a 32-page booklet with a coloured page with international picture covers (a total of 163 covers are displayed"
"The Beatles"") and an album of Christmas-themed songs (""Christmas with The Smithereens""). The album cover is illustrated by William Stout, who also designed The Who's bootleg albums ""Who's Zoo"" and ""Tales from the Who"". Allmusic's Mark Deming rated the album three stars out of five, saying that, ""the feel of the album is pretty close to The Who's version,"" and that ""guitarist Jim Babjak may lack Townshend's epic vision and sense of flourish, but he gets the crunchy bash of this music right, and drummer Dennis Diken and bassist Severo Jornacion find a way to pare down the style of"
"The Black Album (compilation album) The Black Album is an unofficial compilation album of solo material by members of the British rock group the Beatles. It was created by the American actor Ethan Hawke, and became widely known as a result of its inclusion in the 2014 film ""Boyhood"". Hawke compiled the record to give to his daughter Maya on her 13th birthday in 2011, including personalised liner notes; it was then incorporated into ""Boyhood"" in scenes shot later that year, with Hawke's character giving it to his son as a birthday present. The compilation contains 51 tracks from Beatles"
"early 1960. The Beatles performed fifteen songs that were recorded at their audition for Decca Records on 1 January 1962 (three Lennon–McCartney compositions and twelve cover versions). Five of these songs were included on ""Anthology 1"". Fourteen of the fifteen tracks appeared on a series of coloured vinyl singles with picture sleeves, released in 1978 on the Deccagone label through ""Strawberry Fields Forever"", Joe Pope's fanzine. The following year, all fifteen tracks appeared on the Circuit Records bootleg album ""The Decca Tapes"". Due to the questionable copyright status of these performances (recorded prior to the group's EMI contract), the Decca"
"Anthology 2 Anthology 2 is a compilation album by the Beatles, released on 18 March 1996 by Apple Records as part of ""The Beatles Anthology"" series. It features rarities, outtakes and live performances from the 1965 sessions for ""Help!"" to the sessions just prior to their trip to India in February 1968. It is the second in a trilogy of albums with ""Anthology 1"" and ""Anthology 3"", all of which tie in with the televised special ""The Beatles Anthology"". The opening track is ""Real Love"", the second of the two recordings that reunited the Beatles for the first time since"